Crimes of May 2006 in São Paulo

The lack of investigation on the homicides of the period, known as the ?bloody week?, may lead to the liability of the state of São Paulo and Brazil

05/12/2009

12/05/2009

On May, 12, 2009, exactly three years after the
beginning of the period known as the "bloody week", the organization
Conectas Human Rights and the families of five of the victims of the
Park Bristol´s massacre presented a complaint against the estate of São
Paulo and Brazil for violations of human rights before the OAS.

The
deficiencies on the investigation of the police held by the estate of
São Paulo prevented the authors of a killing that killed three young
people and harmed other two at Park Bristol in May 2006 being found
and held responsible. Six months after, one of the survivors was the
victim of another episode of summary execution that was also filed.

Once
the Justice of the estate of São Paulo showed itself incapable of
investigating properly this case, Conectas and the families send,
simultaneously, a petition to the General Attorney of the Republic for
him to request the "federalization" of the investigations. Besides that,
they also presented a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, an organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The "federalization" was born in Brazil with the Constitutional Amendment
nº 45/2004 and works as a second opportunity for Brazil to treat
properly the human rights violations and avoid international sanctions.
The General Attorney of the Republic is the only one whom can promote
this incident. On the other hand, Brazil is a member of OAS and
recognized the Inter-American System of Human Rights, an Organization
that can hold it responsible internationally for disobeying the American
Convention of Human Rights, as has happened on the cases Maria da Penha
and Ximenes-Lopes.

On the report sent to ICHR, Brazil is held
responsible for violation of the rights to life, integrity and judicial
protection is asked, the repair of the moral damage, the adoption of a
Police´s Code of Conduct that respects human rights and regulates the
use of lethal force, the reopening of the investigations of the cases of
summary execution in May 2006 and the adoption of public policies of
transparency and control regards the investigations and the crimes
committed by public agent.